Storyteller is a hybrid collection of poetry, short stories and family photographs compiled by Laguna author Leslie Marmon Silko

Leslie Marmon Silko

Leslie Marmon Silko is a Native American writer of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, and one of the key figures in the second wave of what Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance...

 and published in 1981. The collection contains fictional stories, stories about her family and stories crafted from tribal traditions. Storyteller contains three of Silko's most commonly anthologized stories, "Yellow Woman", "Lullaby" and "Tony's Story". It is one of her best-known works, alongside Ceremony

Ceremony (Silko novel)

Ceremony is a novel by Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko, first published by Penguin in 1977.The story documents the troubles of Tayo, a half-white, half-Laguna Indian, as he struggles to cope with returning to traditional Native American society after surviving the Bataan Death March of...

and Almanac of the Dead

Almanac of the Dead

Almanac of the Dead is a novel by Leslie Marmon Silko, first published in 1991.- Plot introduction :Almanac of the Dead takes place against the backdrop of the American Southwest and Central America. It follows the stories of dozens of major characters in a somewhat non-linear narrative format...

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Critical studies

Storyteller has received several critical studies.

• Leslie Marmon Silko: A Collection of Critical Essays by Louise K. Barnett, James L. Thorson. See the articles by Linda Krumholz ("Native Designs: Silko's Storyteller and the Reader's Initiation"), Helen Jaskoski ("To Tell a Good Story"), and Elizabeth McHenry ("Spinning a Fiction of Culture: Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller").
• See chapter 1 of Learning to Write "Indian": The Boarding-School Experience and American Indian Literature by Amelia V. Katanski.
• "'The Way I Heard It': Autobiography, Tricksters, and Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller." By: Domina, Lynn; Studies in American Indian Literatures: The Journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures, 2007 Fall; 19 (3): 45-67.
• "Storyteller: Leslie Marmon Silko's Reapproriation of Native American History and Identity." By: Carsten, Cynthia; Wicazo Sa Review, 2006 Fall; 21 (2): 105-26.
• "Improvisations on the Genre: Maxine Hong Kingston
  Maxine Hong Kingston
  Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United...
  
  's and Leslie Marmon Silko's (Auto)Biographical Writings." By: Ziarkowska, Joanna; Americana: E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, 2006 Spring; 2 (1): [no pagination].
• "Narrative Power in Native American Fiction: Reflections on Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller (1981)." By: Johansen, Ib; p.o.v: A Danish Journal of Film Studies, 2004 Dec; 18: 78-88.
• "American Indian Literature and Eco-Vision: A Case Study of Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller." By: Kang, Ja Mo; Journal of English Language and Literature/Yongo Yongmunhak, 2001; 47 (2): 527-48.
• "The Silence of the Bears: Leslie Marmon Silko's Writerly Act of Spiritual Storytelling." By: Fitz, Brewster E.. IN: Iftekharrudin, Boyden, Rohrberger, and Claudet, The Postmodern Short Story: Forms and Issues. Westport, CT: Praeger; 2003. pp. 77-85.
• "Legal Hunger: Law, Narrative, and Orality in Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller and Almanac of the Dead." By: Karno, Valerie; College Literature, 2001 Winter; 28 (1): 29-45.
• "Death and the Power of Words in Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller." By: Pellérin, Simone. IN: Castillo and Da Rosa, Native American Women in Literature and Culture. Porto, Portugal: Fernando Pessoa UP; 1997. pp. 119-26.
• "Storyteller: Revising the Narrative Schematic." By: Hernandez, Dharma Thornton; Pacific Coast Philology, 1996; 31 (1): 54-67.
• "Mother-Daughter Relationships as Epistemological Structures: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead and Storyteller." By: Evans, Charlene Taylor. IN: Brown-Guillory, Elizabeth (ed.) Women of Color: Mother-Daughter Relationships in 20th Century Literature. Austin: U of Texas P; 1996. pp. 172-87.
• "Laughing, Crying, Surviving: The Pragmatic Politics of Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller." By: Browdy de Hernandez, Jennifer; A/B: Auto/Biography Studies, 1994 Spring; 9 (1): 18-42.
• "'To Understand This World Differently': Reading and Subversion in Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller." By: Krumholz, Linda J.; ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, 1994 Jan; 25 (1): 89-113.
• "Storyteller as Hopi
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  The Hopi are a federally recognized tribe of indigenous Native American people, who primarily live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona. The Hopi area according to the 2000 census has a population of 6,946 people. Their Hopi language is one of the 30 of the Uto-Aztecan language...
  
  Basket." By: Langen, Toby C. S.; Studies in American Indian Literatures: The Journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures, 1993 Spring; 5 (1): 7-24.
• "The Web of Meaning: Naming the Absent Mother in Storyteller." By: Jones, Patricia. IN: Graulich, Melody (ed.) Leslie Marmon Silko, "Yellow Woman". New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP; 1993. pp. 213-32.
• "The Other Story of Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller." By: Lorenz, Paul H.; South Central Review, 1991 Winter; 8 (4): 59-75.
• "The Dialogic of Silko's Storyteller." By: Krupat, Arnold. IN: Vizenor, Gerald (ed.) Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P; 1989. pp. 55-68.
• "Yellow Woman, Old and New: Oral Tradition and Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller." By: Thompson, Joan; The Wicazo SA Review, 1989 Fall; 5 (2): 22-25.
• "'The telling which continues': Oral Tradition and the Written Word in Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller." By: Hirsch, Bernard A.; American Indian Quarterly, 1988 Winter; 12 (1): 1-26.